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Google and beyond WCS

How Google Works (and why everyone tries to copy them)

Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web

The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

Google: Bing Is Cheating, Copying Our Search Results


A Google a Day

General Reference Sources


Finding Dulcinea
Librarian of the Internet

Britannica Encyclopedia

OneLook Dictionary Search
Searches for definitions in over 1,000 dictionaries at once

ZipSkinny.com
Census data organized by zip code

ProCon.org
The pros and cons (and supporting research) for controversial issues

FactCheck.org
Monitors the accuracy of claims by politicians, political ads and chain e-mails.

CommonCraft videos
Simple explanations of complex subjects

NationalAtlas.gov

Encyclopedia of the Earth

Know Your Meme
A guide to all the inside jokes on the Internet

Social Bookmarking/Diigo


A short video introduction to social bookmarking

Diigo

Diigo groups

Is It True? Sites to check accuracy

How to Identify and Avoid Spreading Misinformation, Myths, and Urban Legends on the Internet

Snopes.com

TruthOrFiction.com

BreakTheChain.org

Wikipedia 101

Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?

Clay Shirky on Wikipedia's 10th Anniversary

Paul Revere, Sarah Palin and Wikipedia

Google Search Stories--Make Your Own!